Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...device is a wallboard box, about one cubic foot in size, which contains a smaller box made of galvanized iron. Between the two boxes are alternating layers of rock wool and steel wool. A tube from the inside draws off the accumulated orgone...
...start acting like stop watches. Anxious to speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...
...ripen. Batters and managers have sounded off bitterly; the big rush, says Chicago White Sox Manager Al Lopez, gives pitchers a dangerous opportunity for quick pitches that will catch batters unaware. Says Lopez: "Someone's going to get killed if they enforce the stepping-out-of-the-box rule...
...sold it (for ?230) to a syndicate, for public exhibition. In the early igih century Josiah Henry Wilkinson picked it up at the bargain price of ?100. It eventually came down through the family to the canon, who kept it at the foot of his bed, in a box on which his cat used to sleep, and showed the relic off to visitors as an effective conversation piece...
...head? It looks like him-to the reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...